This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
You can run you can hide
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
You and me
Up and down
But maybe this time
We'll get it right
Worth the fight
'Cause love isn't something you can shake
When it breaks all it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
So if you go
You should know
It's hard to just forget the past
So fast
It was good
It was bad,
But it was real
And that's all you have
In the end our love mattered
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
All it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay (I won't make you stay)
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
You and me
Up and down
But maybe this time
We'll get it right
Worth the fight
'Cause love isn't something you can shake
When it breaks all it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
So if you go
You should know
It's hard to just forget the past
So fast
It was good
It was bad,
But it was real
And that's all you have
In the end our love mattered
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
Here's how it goes
All it takes is some trying
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay (I won't make you stay)
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
If you feel like leaving
I'm not going to make you stay
But soon you'll be finding
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
You can run, you can hide
You can run
You can hide
But you can't escape my love
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